Health care
negotiators are looking at options for easing a proposed health
insurance tax that has angered organized labor, including the
possibility of a new levy on the investment earnings of upper-income
people.
The idea is to extend the Medicare
payroll tax — which now applies only to income from wages — to cover
some of the investment earnings of couples making more than $250,000 a
year, and individuals earning above $200,000, a Democratic official
said Tuesday. That would make up lost revenue from scaling back the
insurance tax. MORE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.